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To: tejek who wrote (337437)	5/12/2007 7:29:15 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

No sense putting any value in trash from a website who's front page promotes their new book "Jesus - A Very Jewish Myth" rationalrevolution.net Quit spiking your Kool-Aid ted....

To: tejek who wrote (337437)	5/16/2007 12:03:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Those charts all rely on one specific opinion of where the center is. There isn't anything objective about where the center is. They are true, from the perspective of the person who made them, but nothing more than that. The first chart has some questionable listings. It places all figures on the right as authoritarian which is just silly. As is placing George W Bush in a spot that is more authoritarian then Chirac, and not much less than Arafat. The 2nd one I've commented on before. The problem is not as much that it places France at the center (although I would disagree with that as well) but that it sets France's area to be such that you can't be at the center unless you are very like France. Also the idea that France is overall freer then the US isn't a very reasonable one. The last one is rather silly as well. With Clinton and even Greenpeace closer to Laissez-faire then Reagan and Bush grouped in with Mussolini.